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ML505 Reference Designs

 
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Your ML505 Evaluation Platform is a general purpose board that ships with a number of demonstration designs pre-installed on the Compact Flash card, Platform Flash, and Linear Flash memories. The ML505 Getting Started Tutorial describes how to quickly get started using your ML505. This tutorial also contains a number of hands-on user lab exercises to help you explore the features of your ML505.

 ML505 Getting Started Tutorial
 ML505 QuickStart
 ML505 Lab Resources
The Xilinx Base System Builder (BSB) wizard helps users quickly build a working embedded processing system design through an easy to use GUI interface. The XPS project created by BSB can be run as generated or further enhanced with peripherals added from the EDK IP catalog.

Please see Answer Record # 30595 for the ISE 10.1 Design Suite Known Issues.

 ML505 Reference Design User Guide
 ML505 Overview and Setup
 Master UCF Pin Constraints

EDK 10.1 SP2/ ISE 10.1 SP2
The ML505 Evaluation Platform is built around the Virtex-5 XC5VLX50T FPGA with high performance RocketIO™ GTP transceivers. This design contains a tutorial demonstrating how to generate an IBERT design that exercises the GTP transceivers using the ChipScope™ Pro Serial IO Toolkit.

Using the Xilinx Core Generator™ Memory Interface Generator to build a DDR2 design. Includes ChipScope Pro addition and testing.

A Xilinx CORE Generator™ design is shown that leverages both the hardened PCIe Endpoint Block and a high-performance RocketIO GTP transceiver to create a single-lane PCI Express x1 Endpoint.

This Quickstart utilizes the ChipScope Pro System Monitor Console to display device voltages, temperatures, and external signal levels. The System Monitor feature is built into all Virtex-5 devices.

 ML505 System Monitor Quickstart
Tutorials on GTP Aurora designs for the ML505.

The ML505 can be used to demonstrate a variety of Virtex-5 configuration methods. Initial board bring-up and testing can be accomplished with the Xilinx tools, a JTAG cable, along with the bitstreams and ELF files from the ML505 standalone applications page. Subsequently, ACE files containing both hardware and software initialization components can be generated and loaded from a CompactFlash card by the onboard System ACE™ CF controller. A new Virtex-5 configuration method loads bitstreams directly from a linear flash memory device. Demonstrating the various Virtex-5 configuration methods is user-selectable through a DIP switch.

 Virtex-5 Configuration User Guide
 
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